GOP Rep. Ryan Costello Slams His Own Party Over Shutdown: This ‘is Really, Really Simple Stuff’
On Saturday, GOP Congressman Ryan Costello slammed his own party — and specifically President Donald Trump — for the shutdown mess.
On Friday, Costello — who is retiring — sent out a tweet calling the idea that a shutdown pressures the Democrats is “toddler logic.”
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Then, speaking with CNN’s Ana Cabrera on Saturday, the Republican Congressman doubled down on his criticism.
“Who do you blame for this government shutdown we’re in?” Cabrera asked Costello.
He replied:
“Well, it’s the president. He said it’s his shutdown. The Senate, just a little bit of history here — the Senate passed a bill 100-0 funding the government, known as a clean CR. After the 100-0 vote, the bill came to the House. A couple talk show hosts were screaming and yelling saying we need to get more border money. The president all of a sudden changes his mind and doesn’t find the 100-0 vote acceptable, even though he initially did. A couple members of the Freedom Caucus gin everybody up and by the end of a Republican conference meeting we don’t have enough votes to pass that clean CR. And so we had to put a bill on the floor that increased funding for the border wall, $5 billion and did what we needed to do on disaster relief funding of an additional $8 billion and send the bill back to the Senate that we knew the Senate was not going to take up because you need eight Democrats in the Senate to vote for a bill.”
After Costello slammed Trump’s lunch with all like-minded members of Congress and no Democrats to discuss the shutdown, Cabrera next asked the retiring Congressman if he thinks he will even be in Congress when the measure to end the shutdown comes to a vote.
He then said it is pretty likely he will not.
He added: “I don’t know why Senate Democrats would vote for a bill right now when they will have even more leverage on January 4th when the Democrats take back the House. This honestly is really, really simple stuff. Really simple. But for some reason, there’s a couple people out there that I think are just missing the boat, and one of them’s the president.”
Watch above, via CNN
